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Effects of Frequency and Regularity on New Learning in Preference Readers
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)
Learning to read English requires both knowledge of grapheme-phoneme (GP) rules and rapid recognition for familiar words, which can be mediated by whole-word (WW) mappings. Previous research has suggested that readers ...
Flow and Life Satisfaction
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)
Through a 30 question survey, I aim to examine flow experiences as a positive emotion-inducing activity and how individuals respond to these events. The survey targets the relationship between momentary happiness and life ...
The Effects of Withdrawal Treatment on Attentional Biases towards Drug Cues in Opioid Addiction
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)
To investigate attentional biases in drug addiction, the Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm was used to study opioid-dependent patients undergoing inpatient withdrawal treatment at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. ...
Refining a Measure of Appraisal Style
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)
The following study addresses creating a new, more efficient measure for evaluating appraisal styles, specifically emotion-focused, or accommodative-focused, coping potential and problem-focused coping potential. The ...
Problem- Focused and Emotion-Focused Coping Potential in Adjustment to College
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)
An individual engages in coping when he or she uses cognitive and behavioral efforts to deal with the internal or external demands of a stressful situation to make it more congruent with his or her goals (Smith & Lazarus, ...
Impact of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy on Brain Function in Children with Cerebral Palsy
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)
Few studies have examined the effects of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) in children or its effects beyond sensory-motor domains. Evidence from adult populations suggests that CIMT is linked with cortical ...
Working to win vs. working to keep: Prospect Theory and effort-based decision-making in humans
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-03)
Reward processing studies of anhedonia have provided a great deal of support to the idea that this common symptom of depression and schizophrenia is characterized in part by decreased motivation to pursue rewards. However, ...
Psychopathology and Treatment Seeking of Parents of Children in Treatment for Psychiatric Problems
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-03)
The Effect of Early Family Conflict on Psychological and Biological Processes in Young Women
(Vanderbilt University, 2012)